It’s a painful moment. You think you have a firm grip on your iPhone before it suddenly slips and falls (in slow-motion) to the ground, shattering your screen in the process.
Luckily for the clumsier among us, chemists have realised that a material - made out of carbon-based chemicals - originally used on airplane wings can fix your broken iPhone screen, along with car windshields, bicycle frames, paint and much more.
L’Oreal have already expressed interest in the healing agent and are in talks to create a type of self-healing nail polish.
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The University of Bristol further developed the material and it can now achieve 100 per cent recovery of mechanical strength in some materials.
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